Word: cocktailing
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...Development Center last week, Civilian Engineer Courtney Metzger took a swig of water. "It tastes much better than the ordinary kind in the supply tank," he reported to Space Physician John Paul Stapp. Agreed Stapp: "It's no worse than some of the stuff you get at cocktail parties." As part of Project Hermes, a program that aims to give the first space travelers all the comforts of hygiene, the water had been distilled from Metzger's urine...
...Beaches. Until the shots ripped into Hendrik Verwoerd's face, many whites could still remain unconcerned. The beaches and cocktail lounges of Durban were crowded with holidaying Transvaalers oblivious of the violence on the city's outskirts, and in bustling Johannesburg, business went on much as usual. But even among the whites, opposition to Verwoerd's policies was growing. For the first time, Afrikaner and English-speaking business groups spoke out. Their objection was simple: the disturbances were jeopardizing the economy. Jan Moolman, chairman of the Wool Board, called on the government to "amend their policies...
Enter, Indeterminancy. A man in sneakers and grey-flannel slacks walked over to the balloons and started popping them with a pin. A contralto in a sickly green satin cocktail suit began singing St. Louis Blues. A dancer in a black leotard skipped rope while the pianist slammed the keyboard with his elbows. "Five!" cried Cage, his arm descending like the second hand of a clock. Sneakers hit the piano strings with a dead fish. Black Leotard read a newspaper while marking time to the wail of the trombone by flipping a garbage can lid with her foot...
...Producer-Writer Norman Krasna's so-so script trippingly. Dean Martin neatly blends tomfoolery and tomcattery. Except for the initial spat, real life Husband-and-Wife Team Curtis and Leigh nibble at each other as voraciously as if they were hors d'oeuvres at a cannibal cocktail party. The assorted nonsense will probably irk no one except college faculty wives, who may find the decor irritatingly ludicrous. On an assistant professor's salary, Tony and Janet maintain a duplex Manhattan penthouse, complete with panoramic view and a gracious clutter of antique silver buckets atwirl with champagne...
...into smuggling the weapons to anti-Communist rebels in Indonesia. The amateur gunrunner winds up in an Indonesian prison that is not at all sanitary, and when rebels begin to ventilate the building with antitank guns, Nilson is hardly consoled by the thought that the affair will make dandy cocktail conversation back in Wilmington-if he ever gets back...